Lemn Sissay Quotes

#1. I think I'll paint roads
on my front room walls
to convince myself
that I'm going places

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#2. I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

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#3. I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

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#4. Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here

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#5. The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual.
Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

John Cleese

#6. To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.

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#7. Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.

Paula White

#8. When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

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#9. You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

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#10. Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

Ian Somerhalder

#11. I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.

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#12. Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

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#13. Power had been passed in some way that none of them knew but all understood.

Stephen King

#14. Did you ever know that you're a jackass?

Chris Jericho

#15. Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

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#16. Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing

Mo Ibrahim

#17. It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Robert Breault

#18. My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.

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#19. My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.

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#20. I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies.

Anthony Burgess

#21. I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

Ethel Waters

#22. You remind me
Define me
Incline me.
If you died
I'd.

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#23. Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#24. Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.

Melanie Shankle

#25. A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

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